About the job Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey . Position: Bioinformatician Type: Contract Compensation: $60–$85/hour Duration: 4 weeks Commitment: Remote Role Responsibilities Solve complex bioinformatics problems in transcriptomics , genomics , and virology . Analyze large biological datasets and submit analytical workflows as Jupyter notebooks . Work independently under a blind protocol with no prior context. Inform the evaluation of frontier AI models on scientific reasoning. Utilize Python and/or R for bioinformatics pipelines. Produce well-documented, reproducible Jupyter notebooks . Qualifications Must-Have PhD or Master's degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, or related field. Experience with at least 2 of: RNA-seq analysis , variant calling, metagenomic classific...